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Peachy wonders
National Trust Nymans, West Sussex, September 2024 We’re approaching mushroom season in England and there are a few signs already. It’s been a wet spring and summer according to everyone so hopefully this will result in a decent autumn for our shrooms. Every cloud (literally)! On an afternoon walk around the National Trust’s magnificent Nymans… Read more
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Rooting bolete in the park
Happy Fungi Friday! My local park threw up a nice surprise this week when I spotted an uprooted bolete in the buttresses of an oak. I approached the oak and thought very quickly that it was a rooting bolete (Caloboletus radicans). Why? I’d seen this species during a walk in Suffolk, with several large mushrooms… Read more
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Deathcaps at Lough Cullin 🇮🇪
Happy Fungi Friday! An interesting find on a visit to Mayo in Ireland this week. September is a good month for deathcaps, and so it showed. The first thing I saw was this upturned mushroom cap, which I went to inspect. You can see the remnants of a veil at the edges of the underside.… Read more
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Twitten boletes
Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 The weather has felt a little more autumnal in recent days. So I wasn’t surprised to see one of the summer boletes, despite their hard location. What a mess eh? You can see the pores here on the underside of the gap, a key feature of bolete and similar fungi. The… Read more
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Car park amanitas 🅿️
Haywards Heath, West Sussex, Friday 26th July, 2024 Today I was out and about and spotted a tranche of Amanita mushrooms on a car park verge. This is my first sighting of proper summer shrooms, and I think they’re the grey-spotted Amanitas which are potentially a couple of different sub species. Photos are with my… Read more
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Tawny grisette in June
This week I saw one of my first proper mushrooms of the summer period. During a walk after work through Ashdown Forest I spotted a tawny grisette under some low bracken at the edge of a wooded heathland. This is a common species on heathland in south-east England. The photo above shows birch woodland, which… Read more
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